Man About Canton: Summer Concerts

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Many New England cities and towns conduct free summer evening concerts where you can listen to some good music and enjoy a hotdog or hamburger. The only requirement is that you bring a chair unless you want to sit on the ground. The Canton Recreation Department’s popular free Summer Concert Series on the front lawn of the Marilyn G. Rodman Administration Building begins at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, July 9, with the Canton American Legion Band and continues with The Reminisants on July 16, The Olde Kids on the Block July 23, The Leafmen July 30, The Cactus Gang August 6, and The Infractions August 13. So remember, pack your chairs and blankets for a night of fun for the whole family.

Meanwhile, the outstanding Sunday evening summer concerts in Norwood are once again at the bandstand in the town park at the intersection of Nahatan and Washington streets. They will begin on June 29 at 7 p.m. and continue each Sunday evening through September 1, rain or shine. Additionally, the town of Milton has a Tuesday evening concert series at its Baron Hugo Gazebo on the town green at the town hall, and their concerts run from June 24 though August 19 from 6:30 to 8 p.m.

The Waterfall Bar & Grill at 2 Forge Pond (formerly Centerfields) has applied for a new all-alcohol restaurant license. Also applying for a new all-alcohol license are Bertucci’s Brick Oven Ristorante and Mai Place at 323 Turnpike Street.

The Suffolk Grille restaurant at 2790 Washington Street has transferred its all-alcohol license to Hank & Jim Enterprises, LLC d/b/a Blue Hills Grille.

The Canton Board of Health recently voted to pass a regulation that will restrict the issuance of private water well permits, with some qualifying exemptions.

Vermont has an estimated 2,500 moose statewide.

Talking about Vermont, its governor, Peter Shumlin, has signed a bill that bans the use of hand-held cellphones and other electronic devices while driving.

The long-troubled United States Postal Service, with a loss in 2013 of $5 billion, has teamed up with the Staples Company to offer mail services in 82 of its office supply stores. The stores will provide basic products and services such as selling stamps, first class mail, and processing priority mail and packages. Postal workers have organized protests over the Staples mail service program. Staples salesclerks earn an average of $8.52 an hour while the average postal clerk earns $25 an hour.

The Canton Historical Society will hold its annual hot dog cookout on Sunday, July 13, from 12-4 p.m. For $5, you will get a hot dog, a drink, a hoodsie, and a tour of the society’s museum at 1400 Washington Street.

Canton High School’s graduation ceremonies took place on June 6 at Memorial Field, and for the first time in five years, it did not rain. The graduating class of 213 students also received over $300,000 in scholarship money. The class president was Sarojini Schutt, and the valedictorian was Megan Tse.

For the second year in a row, CHS senior tennis captain Erika Nannery was named the MVP of the Hockomock League. Nannery did not lose a single match in the league over the past two seasons.

The Bulldogs girls’ tennis team finished the season with a 10-9 record. One of the wins was over Foxboro, spoiling the Warriors’ perfect regular season. Foxboro (19-2) lost in the Division 2 state finals to Concord High School.

North Attleboro senior pitcher Megan Colleran was named the 2014 Gatorade Massachusetts Softball Player of the Year. The 5’8” right hander had a 17-3 record that included a no-hitter against the Canton girls in the Hockomock League.

According to the state Department of Education, over 6,300 students are homeschooled in Massachusetts. The town of Weymouth, with 40 students homeschooled, has the highest total in the south shore, followed by Marshfield with 19, Quincy with 16, and Braintree and Pembroke with 15 each. The top reasons parents choose homeschooling is because of religious and moral beliefs.

Coal is used to generate nearly 40 percent of the electricity produced in the world. In fact, in China, coal accounts for 70 percent of its total energy consumption and 80 percent of its electricity.

Since the late 1800s, U.S. currency has been printed on a unique cotton-blend paper; and for decades, the sole supplier of that paper, Boston-based Crane & Company, relied on recycled denim scraps from the garment industry to meet almost a third of its cotton needs.

Talking about U.S. currency, on a dollar bill, the number “1” and the word “one” appear 16 times — 10 times on one side and six times on the other side.

The Massachusetts legislature recently approved a $12.7 billion transportation bill, which includes $300 million for local roads and bridge repairs; $2.2 billion for the South Coast Rail Project, which would extend commuter rail service from Boston through Canton and Stoughton to New Bedford and Fall River; $325 million for an expansion of South Station to be renamed the Governor Michael S. Dukakis Transportation Center; and $63 million for the Registry of Motor Vehicles modernization.

Avalon Bay Communities wants to build a 265-unit development behind the Target Store in Easton. Now where has MAC heard that name before?

Selectmen recently appointed James Galanis as a new Canton police officer. Jim is a Canton native, a CHS graduate, and has worked for the Wareham Police Department. He also coaches the JV boys’ hockey team at CHS.

MAC would like to wish a happy belated birthday to one of his favorite Canton people, Nick Bartone, who turned 97 on June 24.

No matter how thoroughly you plan, no matter how much you think you know, you never think of everything.

This is all for now folks. See you next week.

Joe DeFelice can be reached at manaboutcanton@aol.com.

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